Editorial
If you’re fit enough to run marathons and ultras, you’re a damned aerobic astronaut. And as a rebel ina world of lumps, you’re liable to run one more mile just to flaunt it. How dare you? Don’t you realize there are Mercedes payments to be made? That you’ re setting a bad example for children and undermining the self-esteem of sedentary people? The nerve!
Now is the time to slip back to an era when life was grounded in indiAdventure Running At Its WORST!
vidual responsibility, to a time when Ben Franklin, that revolutionary 18thcentury guy who lived to be 84, uttered the words that send shudders through today’s medical-industrial complex: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
To the ramparts! Out the door! Run on to fitness, to health, to freedom!
—Rich Benyo
In 1989, two runners set off to become the first to run from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney and back—in mid-summer. Lottsa luck, fellers!
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This article originally appeared in Marathon & Beyond, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1998).
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